Medical Assistance In Dying (old)

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This page is about the pre-ICD10 diagnosis coding schema. See the ICD10 Diagnosis List, or the following for similar diagnoses in ICD10:Medical Assistance In Dying

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Category/Organ System:	Category: Other Medical (old)
Type:	Category: Medical Problem (old)
Main Diagnosis:	Medical Assistance In Dying
Sub Diagnosis:
Diagnosis Code:	90450
Comorbid Diagnosis:
Charlson Comorbid coding (pre ICD10):
Program:	Critical Care and/or Medicine
Status:	Currently Collected

Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) is a program that allows terminally ill patients to access the assistance of a physician to control the time and circumstances of their death. See links under #Program Details for more info.

Collection Instructions

Code this for patients who are admitted to your ward/unit either:

• receive this assistance on the ward/unit
• are moved to a special location directly from your unit for the purpose of receiving this assistance

further changes to end of life data?

• Julie was also looking into changing how we code other Category:End-of-life related data.
  • Julie, I think I wrote that but now I don't actually remember what that was about, and I don't think we clarified it at task, did we? Ttenbergen 13:26, 2017 July 20 (CDT)
  • we failed to ask that, let us add that to next meeting -

Julie asks: how to add a code for palliative care/ comfort care at discharge and/or change dx palliative service.

• SMW

• Cargo

• Categories

ICD10

Template:ICD10 How will we code this in ICD10 and will it give Julie the details she needs? Ttenbergen 22:54, 2017 November 13 (CST)

Program Details

• http://www.gov.mb.ca/health/maid.html
• http://www.wrha.mb.ca/maid/